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Garrick

#6,925 in 2025Boys' name

Spear + king, ruler, through *Gaizarīks

Garrick has been given to 5,439 babies in the U.S. since 1927. In 2025 it ranked #6,925 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1989, with 258 recorded.

Babies named Garrick, 2025

1 in 276,000

Garrick over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Garrick: meaning, origin, and history

Spear + king, ruler, through *Gaizarīks

Old English

What Garrick means

Garrick belongs to the name family reached through Garrick → *Gaizarīks. Its meaning is “spear + king, ruler”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Old English *Gārrīċ (from gār (“spear”) + rīċ), from Proto-Germanic *Gaizarīks. Doublet of Gaiseric.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Garrick (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Garrick is used in English. Its origins include Old English.

Garrick comes through Old English *Gārrīċ and Proto-Germanic *Gaizarīks.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gaiseric and *Gaizarīks.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Garrick is pronounced /ˈɡæɹɪk/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,439 boys were recorded with the name Garrick between 1927 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 258 in 1989; its best national rank was #511 in 1973.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,181 in 2020 to #6,925 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,260 in 2015 to #6,925 in 2025.

How common is Garrick?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,925
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Garrick sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Garrick. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Garricks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Garrick was born before 1986 — so the typical Garrick is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
22.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,357
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 22.9% of all recorded uses (1,248).

Is Garrick rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−641
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,744
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,665
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.34×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.7%
Peak was 1989 (258)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#511
1973

Spellings of Garrick

Garrick is not the most common spelling — Patrick is, with 79.6% against Garrick's 0.63%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Garrick is used

Across 1910–2025, Garrick was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 67,973 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 16,667
  2. 2Arizona1 in 33,333
  3. 3California1 in 33,333
  4. 4Mississippi1 in 33,333
  5. 5New Mexico1 in 33,333
  6. 6Florida1 in 50,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 50,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Garrick has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Garrick around the world

Where Garrick ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2013
    #4,685
    in 2013
  • Canada
    1991–2018
    #2,905
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1948–1992
    #538
    in 1992

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Garrick

People whose public names include Garrick, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Garrick by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,925
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,744
Best rank ever
#511
1973
Peak year
1989
258 that year
First recorded
1927
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,439
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Garrick

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Garrick

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Garrick, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Garrick

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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